Saber popular e ecológico de sistemas agrossilviculturais por agricultores no município de Bonito-PE

Abstract

Agroecology is an area of knowledge that proposes sustainable management of property. However, it is not limited to this; it relates to territoriality, the valorization and recovery of knowledge, and the construction of knowledge. The latter is understood as a new knowledge that is produced from the exchange between knowledge: academic and empirical. The objective of this work was to understand the popular and ecological knowledge involved in the management of agrosilvicultural systems by family farmers in Bonito - PE, seeking to understand how this knowledge contributes to the process of agroecological transition. For this, we used as a methodological route action research that consists in action or problem solving where those involved in the situation (researchers, farmers, fishermen, traditional and non-traditional populations) act in a participatory and cooperative manner. For data collection we opted for on-site observations, recorded conversations and interview script with the farmers that make up the Life Market, the only public market for organic products supported by the university incubator; dialoguing about the knowledge about the agrosystem forest species and their respective uses. It was realized that there is a range of local ecological knowledge that must be rescued and valued to strengthen the process of agroecological transition and knowledge building.